Fic update: Death Note - Broken Hallelujahs - Chapter 16

[tallulahgs]

[Title] Broken Hallelujahs
[Rating] PG-13 (slightly above that language-wise)
[Fandom] Death Note
[Story Summary] AU. Neither Raito nor Near's victory went as planned. Now the task force and the SPK are on the run with Kira's notebook and all the power of the new world against them.

Penultimate chapter! Who's going to make it out alive?

[Chapter 16 on Fanfiction.net]

[Chapter 16 on skyehawke.com]

Comments

[mayfic.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, we're nearing the end!

Light didn't, in the end, take that much to undo. He was relying on the fact that he was so sure that Matsuda would do what he wanted.

He didn't have much chance after the death note was dissolved, though, so all that needed to happen was either a stretch where Kira kills nobody (all he has is Misa, indefinitely, and she's going to be little use without a death note) or be caught killing people, himself, in a way that would clarify him as just a murderer.

And it's an interesting place for the chapter to end where Light is dead but there's still one more chapter.

The scene where the SPK died (?) was pretty disturbing, because I really do think that Kira's supporters would just tear people apart like that.

Really awesome chapter, looking forward to the final one.:)

[tallulahgs]

Thank you!

I think I wanted it to be, like, in the end L was right, and things were as out of control for him as they were for everyone else. Even if he'd managed to kill Matsuda and Ide, things still wouldn't have magically fallen into place for him.

[mayfic.livejournal.com]

Yes, I really do think that by the end (both here and in canon), due to Light's increasingly tenuous grasp on sanity and reality, he was losing his grasp on the world, too. One person cannot micromanage the world.

[tallulahgs]

Completely. Certainly in canon, he wanted it to take on its own momentum, but, I don't know, I feel he underestimated the level of control he'd lose because of that? (I'm not sure if I have actual textual elements to back this up...)

[mayfic.livejournal.com]

I think he underestimated how much control he could conceivably have before he went mad from it. If it continues on its own momentum, then it's likely to fit into something else because it's going to become apparent that Kira isn't there executing people. And then Kira wouldn't fit back into it.

There was always too many variables.

[tallulahgs]

And of course, from his perspective, he could never, ever go mad, because he's perfect -_- Which wouldn't have helped. He was never that self-aware.

Yes. He could never sustain the illusion of being as powerful as a god... not in the long term.